It’s a banner day for podcasts. Here’s a link to an informative interview with one of the people behind the Metaverse Republic, ‘Mondrian Lykin,’ on the blog Metaversed. The Metaverse Republic is a project that is attempting to create a grid-wide opt-in justice system in Second Life. The podcast provides a great overview of the project, the interviewer hits the important questions (including the million-dollar question, “Isn’t this basically extortion?”), and ‘Mondrian Lykin’ handles the inquiries very well. Worth your twenty minutes, in my opinion.

[...] You can learn quite a bit about the nuts and bolts of the project by reading this Executive Summary of the MR’s Founding Charter, or by listening to this podcast interview with one of the people driving the effort, from the blog Metaversed. (VB pointed readers toward the podcast yesterday.) [...]

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